Posted by NoNeedToBeNamed
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OK. My really first post. Before of anything, sorry for my bad English.
I've been following PA for almost two years now and was avoiding to do any kind of commentary here because I think it is unsafe to participate of it. I was fearing to be put in same black list by TPTB or something. However this week I found out this thread and I am very impressed by its content, so that I did decide to act careless. sirdipswitch, as a rational person that I am (in fact, I am a mathematician), I have absolutely no reason to believe in nothing that you're saying. Yet I couldn't disagree with any one word you've spoken until now! Nor I think any of your supposedly recent acquired abilities impossible to have! LoL As a matter of fact, I realized people can achieve a higher state of being long time ago.
One of a few memories I retain from when I was a kid (believe it or not) is that final scene of the movie Little Buddha where Sidarta reaches enlightenment, that I watched, for sure, at random. That impressed me a lot during my childhood. I know it sounds stupid, but, besides that, I grew up watching a cartoon with this kind of holy knight described as "the man nearest to God". For some reason these words always ressonate deep within my heart and I thought they were meant to describe a state that every man should achieve. I'm not and never was a religious person, even though, maybe because of that, I asked to God at the age of eighteen, more or less, with true intent I believe, to not let me live the life of the ordinary people. I don't understand God's way, let's put it this way, but I haven't got what I wished for. Soon after that, I went study in a very prestigious university at my country and, since then, have dedicated almost ten years of my life to build a solid career. I'm actually succeeding in this goal but the truth is: I'm sad. I know that I'll live an ordinary life if I don't do nothing for a change and, worst, I feel like that I've decayed in some way.
When I came to know of PA I found out answers to many of my thoughts and feelings that I couldn't put into words before then. But, even if I've read and discovered about a lot of things, I wasn't in the mood to do this or that to, let's say, awaken. One of the main reasons was because things seemed to be too complicated to have some true value for me. Please people, don't misunderstand me. It isn't fear of hard work. It's actually part of my personal faith: as in math, elegance resides in simplicity. And a true way of living must be elegant! Besides that, I'm not interested in having a master, spiritual guide or anything alike, simply because none of them can answer to all of my questions!
It was in this state of spirit I found out this thread, where maybe a crazy old man says he is his own master (once High Self is himself), that he had achieved a higher state of being throwing away all the complicated stuff he had studied during his whole life, acting as a child to keep everything stupid simple! Probability tells me all of this cannot be just a coincidence. So, sirdipswitch, I thank you for your wholehearted obstinacy to try to teach us something, even if this then proves to be a truth just for you and mr.white. In respect to your efforts, I'll give a try to the things you are defending so far. Yesterday I bought the books Adventures Beyond The Body and The Secret Of The Soul at Amazon and should receive them until the end of September. Once I receive them, I'll start my reading and practice and will return here to share my own experience. I'm not going to use the PDF version of these books because they could have been modified. And Raduga's method will be my plan B, since a fellow said it can cause a distorted OBE.
For those still trying to get an OBE, I'd like to say that, as in math, sometimes it can be a real challenge to prove very simple statements. Nonetheless, it's always worth at the end. So keep trying with yours heads up! I also thank you all for the sharing of your experiences.
Cheers to all!